the negative posts on here...fact...if you want more fans to follow charlton away then everybody has to start talking about the positives of going to an away match, not make it sound like a one man and his dog effort where the dog keeps moaning at the man for standing up...once upon a violent time, the away support for a game in london wasn't put off by negative inter chat because there wasn't the internet...of course, charlton selling tickets via a premium charge phone line that makes you listen to a load of crap first doesn't exacty help those of us that have to phone from work so dont bother telephoning at all...
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I can't believe for a moment that views express in any internet forum would affect away ticket sales. The number of fans on this board represent a tiny minority of Charlton support.
As for buying tickets, I thought calls were charged 10p a minute? Hardly a massive outlay.
really,
so pre 2006 (launch of c/life) we used to bang out ends?????????????????
i'll add it to the list of credit cruch, hooliganism, stand up/siddarn brigade, posties stealing tickets, too near to christmas, still on summer hols, on tele, early/late kickoffs, the 'lost selhurst generation', tickets not on general sale straight away despite 40,000 (guess) red card holders able to buy 2 tickets, blah blah blah.......
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it aint the cost, its the fact that a premium rate number comes up on the bill...and if its only 10p, why bother charging in the first place ?
One maybe a "reflection" of the other but that does not mean it is cause and effect
really,
so pre 2006 (launch of c/life) we used to bang out ends?????????????????
we took a lot more then, and when we were in the old 3rd division, to a london derby...none of this crap about only 2k for palace away...yes, cost does play a major part and having to buy a ticket beforehand puts a lot of peole off but negative posts saying nobody goes, everybody moans blah, blah, blah just makes people think, fck it, i wont bother...once upon a time, if you didn't go to the last away game you thought you'd missed out big time when you started hearing the stories in the covered end come next home match...
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Perhaps it would help if ticket and travel prices were cheaper and the club played a more attacking style away from home.
Now the f**k can it be "traditional" that we dont go away ------------ bollox
cart loads of reasons people dont go.
LTGTR in the days of hoolies and no segregation people stood together and acted together for safety. It also meant more comtraderie and none of this sit down ball kak. Turn up on day get ticket etc etc etc. Days are gone fella.
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I see Mr Angry has woken up...
You ignored what I said about cost of tickets and travel and the dire performance we often put in on the road. Trekking up to say the north west has generally been a waste of time over the last few years.
I could also add that we have few fans outside our catchment area - SE London and North Kent.
you say "traditional pore away support" then say "last few years" total hog wash .
we are a small team who are not very good and people dont have the sort of money that they used too.
plus charlton have been letting us down away from home for the last 10 years the fecking bstds and we are fed up getting given shite by some dirty nothn monkey bstd or some smug dirty sthn bstd
there said it
Then
you could front up on the day.
didnt cost alot on the train
you could have a good booze
trains ran back to London very late
you could move about in the ground didnt mind if someone was a tea and flask or a hoolie if you didnt like it you could move
Now
Costs alot to get in
costs alot by train
trains dont run that late coming home
you have to sit next to kids/hoolies or sit down at the fronts
only common is we have always been shit-------but now the fun has gone.
How many times in the past have i/we seen us get stuffed away ? and people back home say" sorry-- u went allthat way and they got tonked" ------ yet never saw it like that it was (normaly) a good day out.
It's a shame but there ya go.
See you at Selhurst!!
I am not sure thats a typical because it was a replay and we had already been drawn against Man Utd in the next round. (It was the 5th Rd not the 4th). It was our first big chance to get to a quarter final since God was a boy.
As for our away support, how poor is it in comparison to similar clubs say in London? I saw some figures recently which showed us fairly comparable to Palarse for example.
It was the first tie that we took 6 thousand to, the qtr final draw had not been made, we had the replay at the Valley.
I think it is interesting to look at other London clubs though, what about Watford?
You can't really go on away followings for cup games though as small clubs can always get large followings together for a big cup game as its a one off and fans are excited about a big day out. We took over 10k to Old Trafford but after a few years in the top flight, we struggled to even sell out 2-3k there as people have been there and done it.
I remember Yeovil bringing about 5-6k to the Valley a few years ago when they probably don't even get that for home games. But if they were in our league, i bet they wouldn't even sell 2k for a league game.
When we first got promoted to the premiership i know that me and my mates wanted to go to virtually every away game as it was a novelty and the majority were new grounds for us. But after a few years in the top flight, it was like '35 quid for Spurs away, 45 for Chelsea away, no thanks'. As Cardinal Sin says above, we're going tomorrow night simply because it's Palace away but i know for a fact that come QPR away, a ground where most of us have been at least 5 or 6 times, it'll be 'QPR? 30 quid? No thanks'.